HBO’s Westworld TV remake set to star Anthony Hopkins

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One of the most fondly remembered robots thrillers in movie history, Westworld,
is gunning for our TV screens in a remake starring Anthony Hopkins, Evan
Rachel Wood and James Marsden.

HBO, the American TV network behind The Sopranos, Game of Thrones
and True Detective, is behind a pilot that will revive Michael
Crichton’s techno-fable about artificially intelligent cowboys that turn
lethal.

JJ Abrams, the director of the new Star Wars trilogy, is on board to
produce.

In the 1973 film, Yul Brynner played an android gunslinger, the star of a
theme park in which visitors can live out their Wild